Abstract
The parameters of mill load (ML) not only represent the load of the ball mill, but also
determine the grinding production ratio (GPR) of the grinding process. Monitoring and
recognition of milling conditions have significant effect on the operating efficiency, product
quality, and energy and grinding media consumption for the milling circuit. This paper
presents an automated grinding media charging system incorporating a multi-agent system
developed in Java Agent Development Environment (JADE). A control logix program is
designed to determine the precise quantities of grinding media to be charged in an
incremental manner such that shock loading is avoided. The multi-agent system created in
JADE monitors the power drawn and the mill load of the ball mill such that proper charging
conditions are established. High quality of the regulation process is achieved through
utilization of the control logix and the multi-agent system.